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----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Mon, Sep 17, 2018, 11:53 AM Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > I would say this relates to the reality (or not) of first-world problems. > Humans that thrive in the first world must form (or be educated to > acquire) higher-order representations. Psychologizing is one process > that leads to higher-order representations. In an artificial deep neural > network, the neurons in the higher layers represent more and more abstract > interpretations of inputs that have be presented, but it can take hundreds > of thousands of neurons and dozens of layers. > > One might imagine pets that have fewer neurons and less connectivity > amongst neurons could still develop higher-level representations provided > that these adaptations did not interfere with other essential information > processing functions -- keeping in mind the most important function for a > pet is probably anticipating the meaning of human signals. > > Anyway, we'll make great pets. > > Marcus > > On 9/17/18, 11:30 AM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" < > [email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: > > Yes, Glen and Marcus. Very interesting. > > But, "Do animals psychologize?" > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcus > Daniels > Sent: Monday, September 17, 2018 10:57 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > [email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize? > > Glen writes: > > "Even in your example, we might notice that even though there are N > licenses > doled out, the deer population continues to rise. It would be > over-intervention to simply issue more licenses. Perhaps the people > getting > the licenses are mostly an aging population who don't hunt much > anymore but > have some semi-automated approach to getting a license?" > > A population estimation input comes from tagging stations relative to > issued > licenses by category of deer, so they can & do close-the-loop by way of > enforcement. > The population estimation techniques require some assumptions, of > course. > > Marcus > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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